The president s commitment to an ancient but enduring truth, to fulfilling his promises and to advancing peace. Six months ago, the Palestinian Leader hosted donald trump on his middle east tour. That early optimism replaced by disappointment today. Translation jerusalem is a palestinian city. Christian, muslim, jewish and it is the capital of the state of palestine forever. Jerusalem, a city 6000 miles and two continents away from the us, was the subject of an Unusual Campaign pledge from donald trump to a very narrow constituency, to move the us embassy from tel aviv tojerusalem and recognise the ancient city as israels capital, but in keeping that promise, he seems to have made his other goal of advancing middle east peace a whole lot more complicated. Jon sopel, bbc news, washington. Well, lets get some reaction to this from laura bicker in washington. Just how isolated is the us now over this . You heard from our colleague that the un, nato, the arable world had united against thi
1 00am in london and 3 00 in the morning injerusalem. President trump has abandoned decades of us Foreign Policy by recognising jerusalem as the capital of israel. It is arguably his most controversial decision since taking office and its provoked expressions of concern and anger around the world. 0ur north america editorjon sopel reports from washington. Camera shutters click thank you. The president signing this or that proclamation has become a commonplace, but nothing hes put his name to is as consequential or historic as this, a decision that upends us policy to the middle east, the most troubled region in the world. Past decisions had failed. It was time for a new approach. Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious, thatjerusalem is israels capital. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. Its something that has to be done. Its a decision that the arab world and close allies cautioned against, but the president has gone ahead,
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Political opposition. Im for welcome to the Program South africas ruling party the a. N. C. Has formally asked the countrys scandal hit president jacob zuma to resign and wants him to go so the country can move towards political stability and economic recovery the new leader civil rama poza ready to take over remains in power and says he will give his response tomorrow is the a. N. C. Secretary general. So as weve communicated this decision of yours you were given the time and space. To respond. We havent given her him any deadline to or to respond when we call our diploidy we expect they were deployed to do what the organisation expects him to do so i dont know what will happen but. Lets leave it to the residence or perhaps room. As you move through there because for me christine. Christine so the a. N. C. Tells jacob zuma to go he says what im good and ready now what now we wait for tomorrow because he is expected to release a statement a way he will one acknowledge that he has been
Whats soothing or moving the markets right now that bring us up to date. Usually traders here on wall street prefer the action thats how they make their money but after all the turbulence is in the past couple of days i guess it was appreciated that it was a rather boring day here on wall street but just for that to styx it was the third consecutive day that we saw gains in the Dow Jones Industrial average we did see some pressure on Health Care Stocks because there were some reports that amazon might disrupt the next industry suppliers for clinics and for hospitals and that caused some damage for the stock prices of those Companies Amazon itself again a good two percent but the big question is what will happen to inflation and there on wednesday we will get the latest reading on Consumer Prices an important goals for inflation and we shouldnt forget it was reports on inflation that wages increased by the most in summer of two thousand and eight that started all this action and all tho